Hello Readers, in
this post you will learn how to troubleshoot the Feedburner's Feed which is not
updating. Feedburner is the most used feeds management service around and is
powered by Google. It is a great source of traffic and you build a loyal
audience using feedburner feeds. Feedburner is one the most useful tools for
blogging nowadays. But what if your feeds are not updating and the poeple who
have subscribed to your feeds are not getting updates about your latest posts.
This is the most common problem every blogger face. But there are fixes for
this problem as well and we will explore these fixes later in this article.
1) Identify the
problem.
2) Try the fixes
3) Resync the Feeds
2) Try the fixes
3) Resync the Feeds
You should also
check out how to add a custom feedburner email subscription widget to your blog.
Now let us see
what you can do, if you face such problems with your feedburner's feed.
Identify the problem:
First of all log
in to your Feedburner's account and on the very first page you will see a link
to monitor the health of your feeds.It looks like the one shown below:
Click on the
link and check if there are some error messages or not. You can get useful
information on that screen regarding the problem. The most common error is that
your feedburner's feed size exceeds 512K which is the limit for your feeds. If
thats the case you need to reduce the feeds size.
Fixes:
1) The first fix
that you should try is to ping fedburner for the latest feeds of your blog. It
is done automatically after 30 minutes you post a new article on your blog. But
in this case we will do it manually. Go to the troubleshootize tab in your
feedburner account. Click on the pinging feedburner it will take you to the
page shown below:
Enter your
feedburner url, click on ping and you are done. Check if this fix worked for
you or not.
2) If the first fix
does not work for you, you may check the validity of your feeds. Click on the
Feedburner Feed validity from the troubleshootize tab. Check if there are some
errors, try to fix them.
3) If you are
facing problem with your feeds because you exceeded the feed size, then you
need to reduce the size of your feeds. The max limit for feeds is 512K. Click
on edit feed details; now in the original feeds field add the number of posts
that you want to show in your feeds just like below:
http://YOUR-FEED-ADDRESS?max-results=5, 5 is the number
of posts you want to show in your feeds. It varies from blog to blog according
to the size of your blog posts. It will surely fix your problem if you exceeded
the feeds size.
Resync the Feeds:
It is the last
thing that you can do to fix your feedburner feeds errors. Click on Resync
button on the troubleshootize page and wait it to do the magic for you. It
clears the previous cache and refreshes the content of the feeds. It will
surely fix all the issues with your feeds.
Hope i covered
all the fixes above, if you still face any problem you can comment here i will
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Thanks dear.I was facing file size exceeded issue. Fixed.
ReplyDeleteI am glad that you fixed it and my article helped you..keep visiting :)
DeleteThank u Zafar, 512k limit was troubling me, now fixed
ReplyDeleteIndeed its a serious problem, even i had faced it..I am glad that you fixed it..keep visiting bro..
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